# Gortatoor, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lackan, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Gort an Tuair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 776,525 m² (77.65 ha, 191.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,187 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lackan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/lackan.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Ballycastle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34237 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151851 - Centre: latitude 54.272666, longitude -9.332754 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatoor, from 32 m² to 129,859 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 988648: 129,859 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988648.md - Parcel 982795: 71,379 m² (7.14 ha, 17.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/982795.md - Parcel 1000697: 61,241 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000697.md - Parcel 900787: 55,640 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900787.md - Parcel 983062: 52,203 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/983062.md - Parcel 987504: 47,632 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987504.md - Parcel 897731: 39,038 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/897731.md - Parcel 999375: 38,308 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/999375.md - Parcel 898254: 32,333 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898254.md - Parcel 880395: 27,501 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880395.md - Parcel 895720: 26,553 m² (2.66 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895720.md - Parcel 982498: 23,985 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/982498.md - Parcel 983924: 20,845 m² (2.08 ha, 5.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/983924.md - Parcel 987079: 19,818 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987079.md - Parcel 975037: 18,295 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/975037.md - Parcel 897223: 18,079 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/897223.md - Parcel 984224: 17,361 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984224.md - Parcel 1006178: 10,016 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006178.md - Parcel 982077: 9,981 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/982077.md - Parcel 1001616: 9,955 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001616.md - Parcel 989491: 9,137 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/989491.md - Parcel 999874: 8,459 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/999874.md - Parcel 4825319: 4,185 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4825319.md - Parcel 879307: 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/879307.md - Parcel 955885: 1,696 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955885.md - Parcel 979223: 1,154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/979223.md - Parcel 978867: 677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/978867.md - Parcel 896866: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/896866.md - Parcel 901698: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/901698.md - Parcel 2594311: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2594311.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortatoor in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Gortatoor in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortatoor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA014-116: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA014-116----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Heathfield House, farm house, 1700–1775, Regional interest, registry number 31301406, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31301406. Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1775, on a cruciform plan originally five-bay two-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront "tower" on a square plan; shell of single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (north). Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. "Seized", 1922. Damaged, 1923. Sold, 1927. Derelict, 1976. In ruins, 2010. Reroofed, 2011. Now disused. Replacement pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof abutting flat roof behind parapet ("tower"), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Lime rendered or roughcast battered walls on slate-covered plinth; lichen-spotted coursed or snecked limestone walls ("tower") with lichen-spotted cut-limestone stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet having lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered coping; slate hung surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings ("tower") with cut-limestone sills, and lichen-spotted limestone ashlar voussoirs (ground floor) or cut-limestone lintels (first floor) framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including limestone ashlar voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Round-headed central window opening (north) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including limestone ashlar voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash window without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with repointed piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate". - Heathfield House, walled garden, 1700–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31301407, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31301407. Walled garden, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Heathfield House. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortatoor, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortatoor. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortatoor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortatoor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortatoor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortatoor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaleague: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghaleague.md - Carrowmacshane: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowmacshane.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowmore-150708.md - Cloonanass: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonanass.md - Crott: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crott.md - Rathoonagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathoonagh.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortatoor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/gortatoor